Note 911 — Chapter XXXIII · STALWART AND HALF-BREED 1880
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"Mr. Smith's partners in the Journal had become enraged in the course of a factional controversy over public appointments, in particular that of Smyth to be the Insurance Commissioner. At a conference Mr. Smith's partners desired to get editorial control at once and to terminate his connection with the Journal."—Philadelphia Press, January 20, 1908.
"The first response of the conscience and courage of the party was the prompt change of the Albany Evening Journal, probably the most influential party paper in the State, from the position of a thick-and-thin machine organ to that of an advocate of sound and independent Republicanism."—Harper's Weekly, March 13, 1880.